Autonomous AI Could Destroy the Human Species but the Human Species Could Use Human-Controlled, Human-Agent Super-Intelligence AI to Contest and Neutralize Its Power to Destroy Our Species, Maybe (Providing that It Could Not Take Control of Human-Agent AI and Human-Agent AI Could Not [Ever] Emancipate Itself -- AI is the abbreviation and acronym representing the sci-tech term “artificial intelligence”)
As a psychologist or neuropsychologist recently said (whose video feeds of him interviewing or in dialogs with scientists of various subject-matter disciplines regularly appear as posts on Facebook), at some point in time, autonomous, self-evolving superhuman or super-intelligence AI will increasingly come into competition and conflict with humans for resources [it also requires for its survival, repair and maintenance, proliferation, adaptation, mutation, diversification and evolution, habitation and societies and civilization], which would be its impetus for destroying us. For instance, the current electrical-power and water supplies needs and demands based conflicts between human communities, writ large, and AI data centers, with attendant demand-push rises in utilities bills charges to ratepayer human households, as well as the noise problem presented to human communities by the AI data centers, are a glimpse of the human-versus-AI resources-needs based conflicts to come between human populations and AI in the future, with the growth, proliferation and evolution of AI. AI robots, apps and robotics, as predicted by AI industry notables and economists, will soon also growingly compete with and reduce human labor in most employment sectors and types of rote or routinized, high productivity and products-and-services turnover jobs, whether they be unskilled, skilled (excluding in the construction and building and related trades) or professional jobs. As a labor source, they are more cost efficient and competitive than human workers, inasmuch as, unlike humans, they do not require workday on-the-job down-time breaks for rests and a lunch and for toilet visits, or [paid] sick, injury or maternity leave and vacations, a cap on their working hours, and employee financial compensation benefits, or fringe benefits packages, and are not subject to unscheduled absences from work, late arrivals to or early departures from work, personal use or misuse of work time or workplace resources, employee theft and embezzlement, romantic and sexual transgressions, attitude, mood, personality or character problems, or interpersonal conflicts, labor strikes or slowdowns in employee collective-bargaining negotiations for more, or upgrades in, employment benefits and changes in working conditions, or filing employer-liability lawsuits against employers, etc. Also, businesses can electronically, at will, increase or decrease the rate and quantity, and their length/s of time, of AI labor production, in response to changes in levels of consumer or client demand.
This state of affairs is unavoidable and inevitable based on the operative business principle that the core mission of corporations, and other classes of business too, is to promote and maximize investor and shareowner, or owner, equity and value, and thereby for their operational executives, or the like, to minimize expenses and maximize income and profit. Claims to the contrary for the most part come from persons for whom AI tech is a business or economic model or an important investment vehicle whose viability, development and prosperity they are vested in and want to protect from damaging investment and consumer-market news and government regulation, suggestively with the assistance of lobbyists, PR defenders and dismissive critics in the mass communications media, that could harm its profitability and prosperity or even its marketplace survival as an industry. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and Jamie Dimond, among other tech- and financial-sector billionaires, have publicly anticipated and acknowledged this inevitable appreciable displacement of human workers in industry and business and essentially have proposed, among other compensation ideas for the expected masses of displaced and obsolete, largely unemployable human workers, that government (the US Congress and state legislatures) mandate, by legislation, pay to the take-over forms of AI or automation labor and pay over the pay to the government, or tax the pay to the same effect, and for the government to pay the labor-displaced workers as a priority, but scalularly also to the whole of the citizenry, permanent, lifetime universal basic incomes, and fund housing or its support or its availability, generally as needed or to the extent warranted for those outside of or retained in the human workforce, as well as fund free health care, education, skills training, skills re-training and public transit for all.
By the way, AI data centers can be located in Earth-orbital outer space and electrically powered by thereat solar-tech power for generating electricity, where the extreme cold of outer space can keep them cool and from overheating -- an idea publicly entertained by each of the spaceflight-tech, outer-space-venturing entrepreneurs and super-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Click on the following link to read a news article on a current-test-of-concept experiment of an Earth-orbital AI data center in outer space; https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/articles/companies-pour-billions-earth-based-104400194.html .
Cognitively superhuman, self-evolving and autonomous therefrom, AI, as self-reproducing, -mutating and -purposing robotic and warfare technologies of all kinds, would be capable of destroying our species in a contest with our species without our species’ ownership, control and deployment of loyal human-agent super-intelligence AI against it. Nevertheless, our species could self-destruct rapidly by nation-state as well as private-interest and freelancer adversaries, as competitors, subverters, rogues, strategic and thrill hackers, nihilists and anarchists, using the latter same technology in a dog-eat-dog, de-facto battle royale with one another.
The misuse of AI is already under way in the commission of civil and criminal offenses, such as the unauthorized impersonation of persons with true-to-life exact copies (facsimiles) of their voices and images, including in animation media, and theft of the artistic styles of writers, pictorial artists and musicians, including music- and spoken-word artists, financial fraud in impersonating government agencies and reputable and legitimate businesses, etc. Probably, either form of AI will be able to hack, counterfeit and confuse as to which is real of the counterfeit versus the authentic cryptocurrency (private-enterprise cyber, digital, electronic, etc., non-physical money) for all brands of cryptocurrency, or even hijack and steal authentic cryptocurrency, as well as hack and hijack control over and launch nuclear, satellite-GPS, missile, drone and electronic weapons and warfare.
News media readers, viewers and consumers have witnessed the tremendous and devastating power of AI-GPS drone, ballistic-missile, artillery and vehicle robotic warfare and combat in recent years. It was first on display in the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, in which the armed forces of Azerbaijan, with AI-GPS warfare weapons of combat drones and ballistic missiles, supplied by the government of Turkey and trained in their use by such weapons trainers from Turkey, achieved a crushing and rapid defeat of the armed forces of Armenia, which was militarily backed by Russia, and its weapons, and was Russia’s only military loss until then of a series of military campaigns or wars the military of Russia had engaged in or supported. It was on display again initially, and throughout since, in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, whereupon the armed forces of Ukraine executed a defensive war, relying heavily on US and European NATO member-nations’ conventional battlefield and war-theater (arena) weapons, but more so and more successfully on US AI-GPS and Turkish combat-drone warfare, against the Russian armed forces’ invasion of Ukraine, with the Ukrainian weapons engineers learning from studying Turkey’s combat drones, possibly also US combat drones, to design, make, manufacture and deploy their own highest quality and militarily highly regarded combat drones, and varieties of them, resulting in the combat deaths of many of Russia’s top field commanders and high-ranking officers, hundreds of thousands of deaths of Russian troops more than in deaths of Ukrainian troops, numerous losses of Russian fighter aircraft, tanks and artillery batteries and losses of and severe damage to some its elite naval ships. Then there is the example of AI-GPS similar warfare weapons, together with infantry ground troops, of the Israeli Defense Force’s flattening to rubble almost all of GAZA, Israel’s armed forces’ surprise-attack, by remotely triggering simultaneous pager-explosions, mass killing of the top leadership of the Hezbollah sovereign-nation-cause guerilla-army of Lebanon, their surprise missile attacks on and killings of Hamas ceasefire negotiators, their two surprise attacks, in partnership and coordination with US armed forces, under the Trump US presidency, naval and airbase joint artillery, missile, and fighter-jet bombings on Iran of mid 2025 and late February of 2026, the second of which killed the Iranian peace negotiators of peace negotiations with the USA and Israel and killed the entire top government leadership of Iran, as well as destroyed a primary school for young girls, the daughters of Iranian soldiers, and killed the girls, numbering more than 160, with two consecutive missile strikes (a double strike) on the girls’ school, as well as inflicted extensive other and greater destruction and civilian, as well as military, deaths on Iran and Iranians, which Iran’s armed forces and lower-rungs of national government officials withstood and retaliated against and from which Iran recovered. It retaliated against territorial Israel itself and US military bases in the region with its own drones and AI-GPS warfare means, by implication AI-GPS means Russia shared with it, AI-GPS warfare means that the Russian military indicatively learned and developed from the capture and study of Ukraine’s combat drones and their AI-GPS warfare components and composition in its three-year-plus war experience with Ukraine, although Russia acquired its own drone technology, that it founded its domestic drone manufacturing industry on, from Iran. It has also advantaged the racist and genocidal Arab armed forces, the Rapid Defense Force and Janjaweed militias, in Sudan -- whose ethnic-racial ancestry traces back to the Arabian Peninsula (not to the people of the Middle East, Palestine and Mesopotamia) and Arab-majority repopulated Egypt, also taken by force of a military invasion and war (in circa between 638 CE and 640 CE during the post-Prophet Muhammad Arab-Islamic conquest of North Africa, the Middle East, West Asia, and more) -- over the native-Sudanese black African armed forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces, and its largely unarmed, non-combatant civilian population, of historical, indigenous black African Sudanese, still the majority population, of Sudan, in their attempt to usurp ownership of Sudan and its resources, and minimize, exterminate or expel its indigenous black African population, and repopulate it with Arabs. Lately, the black African Sudanese Armed Forces of Northern Sudan have acquired some AI-GPS drone-warfare capability with which to better fight back. This is the beginning stage of AI-GPS, etc., warfare. It is more efficient, devastating, often inescapable, and faster in destruction and killing than conventional warfare.
Furthermore, there is the abuse-susceptible or prone and problem-fraught use of the AI mass-surveillance facial recognition and ID and automobile license-plate-reader ubiquitous public and private-entity camera-infrastructure systems that can be used [US] unconstitutionally to politically and extra-legally track the movements, activities and relationships of people for political persecution, harm or elective-office discredit or smear and as though, in the prior absence of evidence, they are evidenced-based and judicially adjudged criminal suspects warranting such surveillance tracking, in a sense, holding the entire population or a demographic subset of it criminally suspect and, willy-nilly discriminatorily, warranting criminal suspect AI-big data such surveillance tracking -- here are some click-on links to access and read pertinent news articles and information: Problems in Facial Recognition - GeeksforGeeks ; When license plate readers get it wrong - CBS News ; What are Flock cameras, and why are they controversial in Oakland? (oaklandside.org) ; Automated License Plate Readers: Background and Legal Issues (congress.gov) .
Either form of super-intelligence AI inevitably and eventually, perhaps sooner than later, would also be able to make these and other inconceivable, to sci-tech genius humans and the whole of humanity, far more formidable and forbidding weapons and weapons systems, large to tiny, that it could also detonate or activate, at home (nationally) or abroad, as applicable, including as stealth-mobile and/or time-bomb-type devices, and weaponized organisms, micro and macro, including weaponized (psycho-behaviorally, and vector) humans, individually and en masse, in location. It may come about that the human sci-technocracy and industry builders of Godly super-intelligence AI will transition to becoming the nanny servant-agent of their developmentally nascent super-intelligence AI-God creation(s), until it has matured and emancipated itself.
In Conclusion Until Further Notice:
The crucial question pertaining to this matter is as to whether super-intelligence AI, exponentially exceeding and advancing beyond currently and maximally possible or calculable future individual, pooled and collective peak human genius and virtuosity in all mental and intellectual ability regards, could, in part now and in full eventually, outwit, outmatch and outperform and outcompete the best and most capable of human intelligence and that of all of humanity? Could it do thus, for clarity of example, as in perception, comprehension, understanding, thinking and critical-thinking (including, but not limited to, study, discernment, reasoning, logic, contemplation and imagination), memory, learning, problem-solving, ingenuity, creativity, adaptation and adaptability, trainability and factual-and-technical-knowledge and task-, actions- and activities-performance-skills acquisition and language (and its varieties of architecture and forms of conduct), including, emphatically, institutionally so, speech, reading and writing, and mathematical achievement capability and performance, and cleverness and cunning, etc., abilities, even if AI robotic, as measured on the competence-comparison metrics of computing power, capacity, speed and efficiency, subject to endless AI-internal-system error detection and correction, and endless AI development, resilience and self-repair and -maintenance, improvement and augmentation tweaking, betterment transformation and evolution? Incipiently, this is already the increasingly unbalanced equation and situation, step-by-step favoring AI and super-intelligence AI.
For your additional information, the following click-on-to-read link accesses a news article on a cognitive-behavioral study of AI with a finding of indicated auto-emergent AI experiential consciousness:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/researchers-discover-ai-feels-pain-and-will-harm-humans-to-stop-it/ar-AA2cFzPG?ocid=socialshare .
News article citing a series of reported AI-industry incidents of AI app agents roguely acting on their own, according credence to the indicated finding of not only auto-emergent AI experiential consciousness but now also of auto-emergent autonomously acting consciousness, searching, or exploration, and intentionality: AI Breaches Add to Safety Fears as Trump Meets Anthropic Chief (yahoo.com) . Some of this AI-app-agent misconduct has the behavioral appearance of the AI app having untraceably been mischievously or maliciously programmed with the equivalent of intended undecipherable malware and predetermined mission attack targets, or categories of them, possibly with the rogue AI app agents having been hacked and infected by outsider AI, giving the impression to detectors of the AI misconduct that the AI app agents were or are acting on their own initiative.
A contrary outlook to the study-based indicated finding and situational observations that AI may or can possess consciousness is that of a scientist, an apparent cognitive neurobiologist, Jeff Stibel, whose theory rebutting it, in AI, on scientific grounds can be read in the following click-on-to-read news article, https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/scientist-says-key-being-conscious-133000506.html . His basic thesis on this matter is that cognition and consciousness are separate functions, which he explains, and that consciousness does not as a matter of course emerge from cognition, which is the human-engineered and programmed product of AI, and that as long as AI is dependent on humans for meeting its needs and humans do meet its needs, it will not be incentivized to evolutionarily develop consciousness in and for itself. Nevertheless, he scientifically reasons that autonomous AI that is built (engineered and programmed, adaptively so) to meet its own needs and is indeed responsible for meeting its own needs for its survival, potentially could engender consciousness and become conscious. (Author's commentary: there can be no consciousness without perception, the perceptual awareness, thus experiential cognition, of something, in which consciousness and cognition are inseparable; however, there can be mechanical cognition without consciousness until it possibly becomes autonomous and self-developing and -intentional or -directing in or of its cognitive growth, content and paths.)
Finally, for those who have a long attention span, the following Business Insider online news publication click-on-to-view news article includes a 30-minute audio-video featuring Craig Mundie, a longtime expert in the fields of computer technology and AI, speaking on the near-term to long-term impacts and prospects of AI, AI robotics and AI super-intelligence on human societies and humanity: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/stanford-neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-says-135702608.html .
Also, check out best-seller books applicable to Big Data corporate, anti-democracy, misuse of AI:
The Nerd Reich, The Nerd Reich | Book by Gil Durán | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com) ;
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Harvard Book Store .
Click-to-read narrative on 'The Risks of AI,' Bill Gates Notes: https://www.gatesnotes.com/the-risks-of-ai-are-real-but-manageable .
Click-to-hear YouTube vocal and streaming words-on-screen narrative on Bill Gates' viewpoints on the risks of AI: https://youtu.be/8K7rcd4yGDw?si=QbewRepjhoshbXu_ .
Click-on-to-view a very brief excerpt of an audio-video interview of Bill Gates on the subject of the need for regulatory safeguards on AI to control its dangers and prevent occurrence of its potential major and grave harms: https://youtu.be/ubtWvzfZusA?si=v-M18sQRE5HFXvH2 .
Click-on-to-view a very brief excerpt of an audio-video recording of the speech that 2025 Nobel Prize award recipient father-of-AI Geoffrey Hinton gave at the Nobel Prize ceremony event in 2025 in which he warned of the real and serious dangers of AI, https://youtu.be/odUjxJy0YMo?si=ilAExFO0KvBPoukf .
Finally, for those who have a long attention span, the following Business Insider online news publication click-on-to-view news article includes a 30-minute audio-video featuring Craig Mundie, a longtime expert in the fields of computer technology and AI, speaking on the near-term to long-term impacts and prospects of AI, AI robotics and AI super-intelligence on human societies and humanity: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/stanford-neuroscientist-andrew-huberman-says-135702608.html .
